This just in from Reuters:
Voting Ends In Iran Presidential Election -- State TV
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Voting has ended in Iran's presidential election, state television reported.
"Voting has ended in the election. But those voters still in line will be directed into the polling station and can cast their vote until 12 a.m. local time(7:30 pm GMT,)," a caption on state television reported.
Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, editing by William Maclean
A protest in Brussels against what demonstrators call a "fake election:"
A tweet from a reporter with the BBC Persian Service:
It looks like former hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who was barred from running in this election, has cast his ballot:
Voting has now been extended for a third time by another hour to 11 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. GMT)
- DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - Millions of Iranians queued up to vote on Friday, showing strong turnout in an unexpectedly tight election pitting President Hassan Rouhani, who wants to normalise ties with the West, against a hardline judge who says he has already gone too far.
- Voting was extended by at least five hours to 11 p.m. (1830 GMT) because many people were still waiting in line, state television reported. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli said that by law voting could not be extended beyond midnight.
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Hmm...